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    Liz Cheney urges Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris and not Donald Trump

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    WASHINGTON – Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Sunday that if renegade Republicans want to defeat former President Donald Trump this fall, they should actually vote for Vice President Kamala Harris rather than writing other names or not voting at all.

    With the race virtually dead, not voting or entering the names of other Republicans could help Trump in the contested swing states, Cheney said on ABC’s “This Week.”

    “Given the closeness of the election, you have to go the extra mile, especially if you’re voting in a swing state,” said the former congresswoman from Wyoming, who stressed that she had never voted for a Democrat before.

    Two days before Harris and Trump take the debate stage, Cheney called the former president an unprecedented threat to democracy.

    “The Republicans have nominated someone who, as you know, is corrupt,” Cheney once said.

    Several prominent Republicans, including Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, have said they will not support Trump this time. They have indicated they may vote for Harris, not vote at all, or vote on behalf of someone else.

    Anti-Trump Republicans include Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.

    Dick Cheney, one of the most conservative public officials of the last 50 years, once vilified by Democrats as “Darth Vader,” said on Friday: “There has never been a human being who poses a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”

    When Dick Cheney announced he would vote for Harris, he said Trump “tried to rig the last election through lies and violence to stay in power after voters rejected him… As citizens, we all have a duty to put country above party politics to defend our Constitution.”

    Trump and his allies have called both Cheneys “Republicans in name only” and tools of a failed Republican establishment that has ignored working-class voters.

    “Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO, and so is his daughter,” Trump said Friday on his website Truth Social.

    Sarah Huckabee, governor of Arkansas and a former Trump press secretary, who also appeared on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, said Cheney “doesn’t matter” and that most Republicans would support Trump.

    “I don’t want to be rude, but you can’t call yourself a conservative or a Republican if you support the most radical candidate the Democrats have ever put forward,” Sanders said.

    In her ABC interview, Cheney said she also opposed Trump because he was “not a conservative,” citing his numerous threats to prosecute political opponents and his proposals for tariffs that would ruin global trade.

    Cheney said she first voted for President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and compared Trump, the conservative icon, unfavorably. “There is absolutely no chance that Ronald Reagan would support Donald Trump,” she said.

    When asked if she was still a Republican, Cheney demurred. But she said she wanted to help rebuild the Republican Party.

    “I’m certainly not a Trump Republican,” Cheney said. “I’m a conservative.”

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